Introductions

Crowley and Hawhee, from Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students
MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
"Real Indian" advertisements

Histories, Situations, Exigencies

Bohannan, "Shakespeare in the Bush"
Postman and Powers, "The Bias of Language"
Greene, "The Aesthetic Turn and the Rhetorical Perspective on Argumentation"
Greene, "Another Materialist Rhetoric"
Bizter, "The Rhetorical Situation"
Vatz, "The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation"
Biesecker, "Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation from Within the Thematic of Differance "
Fahnestock and Secor, "The Rhetoric of Literary Criticism"

Agency

Crowley, Teacher's Guide to Deconstruction
Biesecker, "Coming to Terms with Recent Attempts to Write Women into the History of Rhetoric"
Campbell, "Biesecker Cannot Speak for Her Either"
Biesecker, "Negotiating with Our Tradition: Again (Without Apologies) on the Feminization of Rhetoric"
Scott and Gordon, Book Reviews from Signs
Ede and Lunsford, "Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked"
Lunsford and Ede, "Representing Audience"
Tompkins, "'Indians': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History"

Writing assignment due: What's at Stake?

Audience, Nation, Identity

Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation)"
Burke, from Rhetoric of Motives and Attitudes Toward History (pp. 262-273)
Jasinski, "Identification" (encyclopedia entry)
Heath, "Identification" (encyclopedia entry)
Fisher, "Narrative as Human Communication Paradigm: The Case of Public Moral Argument"
Charland, "Constitutive Rhetoric: The Case of the Peuple Québécois "
Charland, "Constitutive Rhetoric" (encyclopedia entry)
Jasinski, "Constitutive Rhetoric" (encyclopedia entry)
Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca, from The New Rhetoric
Balibar, "The Nation Form: History and Ideology"
Anderson, from Imagined Communities

Audience, Nation, Identity

Smith-Rosenberg, "Dis-covering the Subject of the 'Great Constitutional Discussion'"
Scarry, "The Difficulty of Imagining Other Persons"
Asen, "Imagining in the Public Sphere"
Somers, "The Narrative Constitution of Identity: A Relational and Network Approach"

Writing assignment due: 150-word abstract of Asen's "Imagining in the Public Sphere"

Words and Definitions

Burke, "Terministic Screens"
Clark, "Contesting Definitional Authority in the Collective"
Schiappa, Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning
Walton, "Persuasive Definitions and Public Policy Arguments"

Words and Definitions

Weaver, from The Ethics of Rhetoric
McGee, "The Ideograph: A Link Between Rhetoric and Ideology"
Steinem, "Words and Change"
Jasinski, "A Constitutive Framework for Rhetorical Historiography: Toward an Understanding of the Discursive (Re)constitution of 'Constitution' in The Federalist Papers"
Smith-Rosenberg, "Domesticating 'Virtue': Coquettes and Revolutionaries in Young America"

Writing assignment due: Definition

Some Theory--and Yes, It's Rhetoric

Foucault, from Archaeology of Knowledge and "Discourse on Language"
Butler, from Excitable Speech
Derrida, "Declarations of Independence"

Writing assignment due : 150-word abstract of Foucault's "Discourse on Language"

Form

Fahnestock, Rhetorical Figures in Science
Burke, from Rhetoric of Motives
Aristotle, from On Rhetoric
Erasmus, from On Copia of Words and Ideas
Weaver, from The Ethics of Rhetoric
Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca, from The New Rhetoric

Constitutive Rhetoric in the Disciplines

Dawes, The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II

Writing assignment due: Form

Constitutive Rhetoric in the Disciplines

McCloskey, Rhetoric of Economics
MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
"Real Indian" advertisements

Writing assignment due: Conference Proposals

Draft Workshops

Writing assignment due: Abstract (maximum 200 words) and Draft (completed), two copies each